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SGGS holds monthly meetings at St. Mark's Uniited Methodist Church in Sacramento County.

Next Meeting: June 26

German Misspellings: Errors in Place Names, *Terms and Family Names* presented by Chuck Johnson
	Speaker Chuck Johnson

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What's New?

Sacramento County Fair – SGGS is helping staff a genealogy booth at the local county fair, an experiment to present the hobby of genealogy to the general public. Booth volunteers are from a number of local area genealogical and historical societies. It was organized by Root Cellar - Sacramento Genealogical Society with support by the Sacramento FamilySearch Library and the Genealogical & Historical Council of Sacramento Valley.

SGGS Seminar Photos Posted – Photos of the recent SGGS seminar have been posted under Spring Seminar. A larger colleciton appears in the photo archive page in the members-only section of the website.
2019 International German Genealogy Conference – Hotel reservations at the discounted conference rate are now open. Go to the hotel reservations page on the IGGP website for more information and to reserve your room.
It is Not Too Late! – Didn't attend the 2017 International Germanic Genealogy Conference in July? Leftover syllabus books can be purchased while the supply lasts. You can also purchase audio recordings of presentations from the vendor.
SGGS Meeting Handouts & Videos – Beginning with the Sept. 26 meeting, presentation handouts and videos appear on a separate meeting page in the members-only section of this website. The meeting page will remain posted for a month following its posting date.

GIACR Project

"This series is one of the most important, most professional, immigrant identification databases published in the last 100 years."

Publisher Lewis Bunker Rohrbach

Since 2005, Dr. Roger Minert and his group at Brigham Young University have been transcribing, indexing and publishing German-American church records in a series of volumes called German Immigrants in American Church Records [GIACR]. A current list is presented below. All are Protestant records.

This table will be updated as new volumes become available.

On the shelf at the Sacramento FamilySearch Library	Available for purchase and soon to be provided by SGGS to the Sacramento FamilySearch Library	Future Volumes
Vol. 1: Indiana Vol. 2: Wisconsin Northwest Vol. 3: Wisconsin Northeast Vol. 4: Wisconsin Southwest Vol. 5: Wisconsin Southeast Vol. 6: Nebraska Vol. 7: Iowa West Vol. 8: Iowa Northeast Vol. 9: Iowa Southeast Vol. 10: Illinois North Vol. 11: Illinois, Cook County and Chicago Vol. 12: Illinois Central Vol. 13: Illinois South Vol. 14: Illinois St. Clair County Vol. 15: Michigan, excluding Detroit Vol. 16: Detroit, Part I Vol. 17: Detroit, Part II Vol. 18: Minnesota, North & South Dakota	Vol. 19: Missouri (excluding St. Louis city & county) Vol. 20: Missouri, St. Louis County, St. Louis City #1	April 2018: Vol. 22: Missouri, St. Louis City #2 Vol. 23: Missouri, St. Louis City #3 Vol. 24: Missouri, St. Louis City #4 2019: Vol. 25: Ohio

This project has been funded by Brigham Young University and some private donors. Unfortunately, said funding has lapsed beginning 2016. So last year SGGS provided a donation to help sustain their 2016 operation and appealed to readers of Der Blumenbaum to do the same. Click here to view a thank-you from the project staff. As volumes became available, SGGS has been purchasing one of each for the Sacramento FamilySearch Library (on Eastern Ave).

For SGGS members, more information can be found on page 11 of your July 2015 issue of Der Blumenbaum. But the donation instructions in that article turned out to be incorrect. If you would like to make a personal donation to this project, mail a check payable to "Religious Education BYU" to the following address. Be sure to also mention you're donating to the GIARC project.

Prof. Roger P. Minert

270K JSB BYU

Provo, UT 84602-5669

Some GIACR volumes are sold by SGGS at its meetings. Online sources follow.

Click here for a list posted on GRT Publications.

Click here for Family Roots Publishing (expected to be the new supplier).

posted 31 Mar 2018, rev 20 Nov 2017 rh

Interested in Helping SGGS?

Click here to visit the volunteer opportunities page.

Click here to visit the organizational structure page.

Upcoming Events

Jun 26

"How to Overcome Misspelling Errors and Similar Problems in Records" by Chuck Johnson

Our next SGGS regular meeting will be held on June 26, and will feature Chuck Johnson speaking on how to deal with spelling errors and similar problems in records. Before our presentation at 1:00, come to the study group at 11:00. We now have wi-fi access for up to 50 computers. Click here for more information. Hope to see you there.

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Jul 24

Featuring speaker Lisa Gorrell

SGGS will hold its Study Group at 11 am followed by the general meeting at 1 pm. Details will be posted soon.

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Aug 28

Featuring speaker Carol Dove

SGGS will hold its Study Group at 11 am followed by the general meeting at 1 pm. Details will be posted soon.

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